Biden does not have the opportunity to spend the support budget of Ukraine

According to Isna, the American media in an article referring to the near end of the presidential term of “Joe Biden” and the inauguration of “Donald Trump”, reported that the White House does not have enough time to spend all the funds allocated to support Ukraine with weapons, and the budget The Trump administration will be overwhelmed.

According to the “Wall Street Journal” newspaper, American officials and Congress have announced that the Biden administration does not have enough time to use the billions of dollars of funding that lawmakers have approved to arm Ukraine, and it will be up to Trump to decide on the remaining money.

According to the report, US officials have said that the White House still has more than $6.5 billion of what is known as the “withdrawal option” without congressional approval; But the Pentagon has sent weapons to Ukraine to such an extent that it can no longer send weapons without damaging its military capability. In addition, logistical challenges have prevented additional weapons from being sent to Ukraine.

A congressional official said that the Biden administration would have to send more than $110 million a day ($3 billion a month) in arms to Ukraine to spend all the remaining funds, “I don’t think it’s possible.”

What Trump decides about the remaining funds will have tangible consequences on the battlefield and could determine how much leverage Kiev will have in potential peace talks with Russia. Trump has said he will end the war, and US officials fear he will bring Kiev to the negotiating table by halting arms shipments to Ukraine.

Michael Kaufman, a senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, said: “The remaining budget would provide significant leverage for the next administration to stop or suspend arms shipments to Ukraine. “The Trump administration’s first task will be to decide on the remaining equipment and how best to ask Congress for additional funding.”

According to the Wall Street Journal, in the last remaining weeks of the Biden administration, the White House plans to switch to sending light weapons and simple ammunition, such as cannonballs, because they are easier to send than heavier equipment such as armored vehicles or tanks.

This is despite the fact that the White House claimed until 2 weeks ago that it could spend the entire amount of Ukraine’s budget before the end of Biden’s presidency and Trump’s inauguration. Now, however, Washington has withdrawn from this claim. America claims that the main problem of Ukraine at the moment is not the lack of weapons, but the lack of at least 160,000 manpower.

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